The short list

What’s the world coming to? I didn’t realize Texas Tech had a combined winning percentage of 23.2 percent in the Big 12 last season in the four sports that actually draw spectators — football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. That’s the bottom of the Big 12. Then I look at the overall year Baylor had and wonder what’s being slipped into the iced tea I purchase on a daily basis at my favorite convenience store ... West Texas A&M will fly the WT flag at half-staff Tuesday in honor of former Buffs football great Jesse Powell, who died Thursday. Powell is the only Buff to appear in three Super Bowls — all with the Miami Dolphins — including the perfect 1972 squad ... Things I don’t get: NBA commish David Stern. When asked during a TV interview about retirement, Stern said league owners would be the first to know, not the television audience, because “(the TV audience hasn’t) been fielding my salary for the last 30 years.” Huh? Does Stern think he would be pulling down a reported $20 million a year if viewers were air-balling the NBA for an episode of “Police Woman” like they did in the 1970s? When asked about the lottery controversy, Stern trotted out Ernst & Young, the accounting firm that “certifies the process.” E&Y? The same firm that “certified the process” for Lehman Brothers in 2008? The more Stern talks, the more it appears he may be the most overrated commish in sports history.